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Renormalization is an essential technique in field-theoretic descriptions of natural phenomena, where the absence of a UV-complete description yields an abundance of divergent quantities. While the renormalization prescription has been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-14 Brenden Bowen , Albert Farah , Spasen Chaykov , Nishant Agarwal

In this letter we determine the derivative of the mutual information corresponding to bit-interleaved coded modulation systems. The derivative follows as a linear combination of minimum-mean-squared error functions of coded modulation sets.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-08-16 Albert Guillen I Fabregas , Alfonso Martinez

Modularity, first proposed by [Newman and Girvan, 2004], is one of the most popular ways to quantify the significance of community structure in complex networks. It can serve as both a standard benchmark to compare different community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Qian Wang , Yongkang Guo , Zhihuan Huang , Yuqing Kong

The problem of fast point-to-point MIMO channel mutual information estimation is addressed, in the situation where the receiver undergoes unknown colored interference, whereas the channel with the transmitter is perfectly known. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-03-14 Abla Kammoun , Romain Couillet , Jamal Najim , Merouane Debbah

Estimating mutual information (MI) between two continuous random variables $X$ and $Y$ allows to capture non-linear dependencies between them, non-parametrically. As such, MI estimation lies at the core of many data science applications.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Alexander Marx , Jonas Fischer

The selection of features that are relevant for a prediction or classification problem is an important problem in many domains involving high-dimensional data. Selecting features helps fighting the curse of dimensionality, improving the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-09-04 Michel Verleysen , Fabrice Rossi , Damien François

We define Persistent Mutual Information (PMI) as the Mutual (Shannon) Information between the past history of a system and its evolution significantly later in the future. This quantifies how much past observations enable long term…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-03-13 R. C. Ball , M. Diakonova , R. S. MacKay

We propose a novel approach to the problem of mutual information (MI) estimation via introducing a family of estimators based on normalizing flows. The estimator maps original data to the target distribution, for which MI is easier to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Ivan Butakov , Alexander Tolmachev , Sofia Malanchuk , Anna Neopryatnaya , Alexey Frolov

We study some of the most commonly used mutual information estimators, based on histograms of fixed or adaptive bin size, $k$-nearest neighbors and kernels, and focus on optimal selection of their free parameters. We examine the consistency…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-05-13 Angeliki Papana , Dimitris Kugiumtzis

Applying a machine learning model for decision-making in the real world requires to distinguish what the model knows from what it does not. A critical factor in assessing the knowledge of a model is to quantify its predictive uncertainty.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Kajetan Schweighofer , Lukas Aichberger , Mykyta Ielanskyi , Sepp Hochreiter

Sliced Mutual Information (SMI) is widely used as a scalable alternative to mutual information for measuring non-linear statistical dependence. Despite its advantages, such as faster convergence, robustness to high dimensionality, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Alexander Semenenko , Ivan Butakov , Alexey Frolov , Ivan Oseledets

This paper develops a mathematical and computational framework for analyzing the expected performance of Bayesian data fusion, or joint statistical inference, within a sensor network. We use variational techniques to obtain the posterior…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-23 Gaurav Thakur

While the linear Pearson correlation coefficient represents a well-established normalized measure to quantify the interrelation of two stochastic variables $X$ and $Y$, it fails for multidimensional variables such as Cartesian coordinates.…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-09-19 Daniel Nagel , Georg Diez , Gerhard Stock

A method to estimate the time-dependent correlation via an empirical bias estimate of the time-delayed mutual information for a time-series is proposed. In particular, the bias of the time-delayed mutual information is shown to often be…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-01-20 DJ Albers , George Hripcsak

With the inclusion of camera in daily life, an automatic no reference image quality evaluation index is required for automatic classification of images. The present manuscripts proposes a new No Reference Regional Mutual Information based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Vinay Kumar , Vivek Singh Bawa , Rahul Upadhyay

Measuring mutual information from finite data is difficult. Recent work has considered variational methods maximizing a lower bound. In this paper, we prove that serious statistical limitations are inherent to any method of measuring mutual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-21 David McAllester , Karl Stratos

A well-known metric for quantifying the similarity between two clusterings is the adjusted mutual information. Compared to mutual information, a corrective term based on random permutations of the labels is introduced, preventing two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Denys Lazarenko , Thomas Bonald

The Mutual Information (MI) is an often used measure of dependency between two random variables utilized in information theory, statistics and machine learning. Recently several MI estimators have been proposed that can achieve parametric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Morteza Noshad , Yu Zeng , Alfred O. Hero

The Bayesian measure of sample information about the parameter, known as Lindley's measure, is widely used in various problems such as developing prior distributions, models for the likelihood functions and optimal designs. The predictive…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-01-06 Nader Ebrahimi , Ehsan S. Soofi , Refik Soyer

Multivariate mutual information provides a conceptual framework for characterizing higher-order interactions in complex systems. Two well-known measures of multivariate information---total correlation and dual total correlation---admit a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Kyle Reing , Greg Ver Steeg , Aram Galstyan